Goodreads asked Nick R.B. Tingley:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Nick R.B. Tingley Someone recently answered this question by saying that the best thing about being a writer was about getting all the voices out of their head and I'm inclined to agree. Being a writer is about two things. 1) Getting that plot and those characters out of your head and on to the page. 2) About refining those characters and plots until you have something that you can call a story.

The best bit of that process by a long way is getting that story out of your head so you can your mind up a bit. There is something fantastically therapeutic about getting that story that you've had bouncing around in there and putting it down on the page, no matter in what terrible or brilliant form it may be in. That feeling of your idea being safe enough that you can let it go is what drives me forward I think and, so far, I haven't found a similar experience that can top it...

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